Montopoli reports: "Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Thursday evening that Bush administration officials were gleeful after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because it gave them a pretext to invade Iraq."
President George W. Bush attends the ceremony to commemorate foreign policy achievements at the State Department in Washington, January 15, 2009. (photo: Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
Ron Paul: 9/11 Prompted "Glee" in Bush Administration
10 December 11
epublican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Thursday evening that Bush administration officials were gleeful after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because it gave them a pretext to invade Iraq.
"Just think of what happened after 9/11. Immediately before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq," the Texas Republican told a group of mostly young backers in Iowa. He went on to suggest officials are now setting the stage for an invasion of Iran.
Paul, who was tied for second in this week's CBS News/New York Times poll of likely Iowa caucus-goers, is making a strong push in the Hawkeye state in hopes of scoring an upset victory in the first-in-the-nation January 3 caucuses. Paul volunteers have been working to convince Paul's mostly young supporters - many of whom will be on holiday break from college when the caucuses take place - to be sure to make it to their caucus site.
Paul's libertarian views - on the foreign policy front, he wants to dramatically reduce the U.S. military presence abroad and end all foreign aid - put him at odds with many Republican voters. A poll from Gallup this week found that 62 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning independent voters see Paul as an unacceptable nominee.
But if no candidate can consolidate support in Iowa, Paul could emerge victorious in the caucuses even if he gets less than 30 percent support. Paul's supporters tend to be more passionate about their candidate than the backers of many of his rivals, which could give him an advantage if bad weather discourages less-motivated Iowans from getting to their caucus site on January 3.
In response to Paul's comments Thursday evening, former Bush administration spokesman Ari Fleisher Tweeted: "The man is nuts."
On "Face the Nation" last month, Paul said that while the average American didn't cause the Sept. 11 attacks, " if you have a flawed policy it may influence it."
"I think there's an influence and that's exactly what the 9/11 commission said that's what the DOD has said and that's also what the CIA has said and that's what a lot of researchers have said," said Paul. "...our policies definitely had an influence and you talk to the people who committed it and those individuals who would like to do us harm. They say yes we don't like American bombs to be falling on our country and we don't like the intervention that we do in their nation so to deny this I think is very dangerous. But to argue the case that they want to do us harm because we're free and prosperous is very dangerous notion because it's not true."
He added: "So I'm saying policies have an effect but that's a far cry from blaming America. I mean in America, you're supposed to be able to criticize your own government without saying you're un-American."
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this is the hole the money goes - $1.3 trillion militarism/year
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
Second, as regards 9/11, two words: controlled demolition.
Conventional controlled demolition does not explain why 80 to 90% of the twin towers were reduced to dust. We have another exotic hidden destructive energy force at play here and it is causing the building materials concrete, steel beams to turn to dust before most of it ever hit the ground.
Fe2O3 + 2Al → 2Fe + Al2O3 + heat
The structural steel, the aluminum hull, the burning jet fuel. The combination might have done it.
Here's a new mantra for any and all U.S. citizens with an I.Q. over 70, and even a few brain cells working:
ASHAMED TO BE AN AMERICAN in today's U.S. of (greed and power) A.(ddiction).
Lots and lots to do to...UNDO THE COUP!
Invading Iran is also terrible policy because that would force the Iran public
to be diverted from their struggle for democracy and prolong the reign of the present dictatorship which is now beginning to crumble.
They secretly hate you a little more now for being right.
People dont believe the truth because the truth sometimes is so far fetched and unbelievable that people cant wrap their heads around it. Then later when the truth comes out they are dumb founded. I think the truth behind 911 is so crazy, that it would leave all of us with our jaws on the floor.
NEVER EVER VOTE REPUBLICAN!!
Now can the military throw me in prison indefinitely?
Bush does look drunk in the photo above. But maybe that is his natural state. It is now hard to believe after an intelligent and intelligent looking president for 3 years that such a dolt as Bush could ever have held the office. But then I think of the current crop of republican candidates and it is clear (Ron Paul excepted) that they all all just as doltish. I have never seen such a crew of total idiots on one stage in my entire life.
A little off topic but try an experiment. Cover the right side of the picture as you are facing it and look at Bush's expression. Then cover the left side and look at the picture again. Do you think he has had a stroke? Or has he just spent too much time around Dick Cheney? And I'm only partly kidding!
Also I dont doubt that pack of narcissistic sociopaths were grinning, they dont care that people died they got their oil war with Iraq thats all they wanted. Bush/Cheney lied and many many tens of thousands of people died. Service men, 911 victims, and Iraqi people all died for the oil corporations.
NEVER EVER VOTE REPUBLICAN!!
Redirect the war machine research funding in the Pentagon to non-weapons development but to develop solar , wind, etc. and robotics to advance rail and effecient transportation of goods manufactured here in the USA.
Ron is probably right about Bush and 911 because the science and surrounding events don't verify the story line.
But, his ideas of how humans should relate to one another in society and how they should interact is retarded.
This is why he could never head a government of human beings because he has absolutely no clue about who he is and who mankind, as a collective, are.
In a lab, carefully controlling the air supply we can burn jet fuel or kerosene efficiently to produce a blue flame at a temperature of 600 degrees C. In the World Trade Center, the large quantity of fuel in the restricted space was starved for air. Pictures of the burning building, show red yellow flames and black smoke. This incomplete combustion would cause vaporization of the fuel, which would suck much heat away from the burning fuel. I would estimate a net temperature at less than 500 C. The melting point of steel is above 1400 C. A kerosene stove does not melt or soften its structure or the iron pot placed over the flame.
If the steel above did lose its strength, then it would have buckled and since the supports at the wall where the plane entered was no longer present the top of the building should have leaned over to that side instead of collapsing vertically.
Hot air rises, and the air consumed by the fire would be replaced by air being sucked up from the floors below, keeping the lower part of the building cool. When the floors above the fire collapsed from the heat, then maybe the excess weight caused the braces that hold a floor in place broke causing one floor after another to give. After all the floors were at ground level all the vertical steel columns should have remained intact rising at least to the floor of the plane impact.
If you support Paul and want to work to get him elected, if you keep bringing up 9/11 methodology you are shooting yourselves in the foot and harming Paul's chances. Too many people still think the Arabs did it and you cannot change their minds.
Stop zooming off the path, here. If you want to elect Ron Paul, calling for a new investigation is fine (Paul has actually endorsed that idea) but do not point fingers because people will shut their ears to the rest of what Ron Paul has to say, which is
we need to clean up Washington and get people back to work. With Ron Paul, THEN we can have an honest investigation.
If you think Bush/Cheney didnot contrive 9/11 than that is sad. We most certainly did. I am still waiting for their and Ridge's terrorists in all these years, with our pants down, we have never been terrorized again. Amazing, so glad we killed all these bad guys this past year.
Now instead of terrorizing us with bombs, we will just allow them to throw us all in jail and lose the key.
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